KWDZ
| City | Salt Lake City, Utah |
|---|---|
| Broadcast area | Salt Lake City |
| Frequency | 910 kHz |
| First air date | 1945 |
| Format | Silent |
| Power | 5,000 watts (day) 1,000 watts (night) |
| Class | B |
| Facility ID | 2445 |
| Transmitter coordinates | 40°30′48″N 112°0′23″W / 40.51333°N 112.00639°W |
| Callsign meaning |
K Walt DiZney (co-founder of The Walt Disney Company, former owner) |
| Former callsigns | 1945-2003: KALL |
| Owner |
iHeartMedia (Citicasters Licenses, Inc.) |
| Sister stations | KAAZ-FM, KJMY, KNRS, KNRS-FM, KODJ, KZHT |
KWDZ (910 AM) is a broadcast radio station licensed to Salt Lake City, Utah, serving the Salt Lake City metropolitan area. The station is owned and operated by iHeartMedia. The KWDZ broadcast license is held by Citicasters Licenses, Inc.
The station was founded in 1945 and originally held the callsign KALL. It was originally owned by Mr. and Mrs. George C. Hatch and Mr. and Mrs. Robert H. Hinkley. In 1946, John F. Fitzpatrick, publisher of The Salt Lake Tribune (owned by the Kearns Corporation), representing the Tribune, purchased fifty percent interest in the station from the owners. The Tribune's interest (Kearns-Tribune, Corp.) sold its interest in 1954 to permit its owner (Kearns-Tribune, Corp.) to apply for a license to buy a television license and to purchase a fifty percent ownership in KUTV Channel 2.
KALL had long aired a full service format. In the early 1990s, the station began airing a news/talk format, carrying programming such as The Rush Limbaugh Show and The G. Gordon Liddy Show. On March 6, 2000, the station's format was adjusted when its sister station KNRS adopted a talk radio format, and the station adopted the slogan "talk radio with an attitude", carrying hosts such as Jim Bohannon and Phil Hendrie.
In 2003, Disney/ABC purchased the station for $3,700,000, while the intellectual property and callsign was purchased by Clear Channel Communications for $2,000,000. Clear Channel moved the station's talk programming and the KALL callsign to 700 kHz, and on April 30, 2003, the station changed its call sign to the current KWDZ.
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